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Netflix\u2019s Triviaverse<\/em> is a new a \u201cquick-hit trivia experience\u201d that will begin rolling out on the streaming service on Tuesday. <\/em>Games are fast, typically under five minutes, and you can play by yourself or head-to-head with another person. I got to check it out ahead of Tuesday\u2019s announcement, and I think a lot of people will be loading it up for fierce trivia competitions with loved ones over the holidays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s how it works. Guided by your host, a mysterious pair of spooky glowing eyes, you\u2019ll pick if you\u2019re playing solo or against someone else. Each round features an increasingly difficult series of trivia questions, and you\u2019ll have a minute to correctly answer as many as you can. You\u2019ll be tasked with solving trivia across a bunch of different categories, including animals, geography, science and technology, world history, sports, food, music, movies and TV, art, literature,\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cmiscellaneous,\u201d according to a list of topics provided by Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The rules differ if you\u2019re playing with one person or two<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Answers are presented next to a virtual D-pad, and you pick the one you want by pressing that direction on your controller or keyboard, clicking on it with a mouse, or, if you\u2019re on a touchscreen device, tapping the answer directly. The more trivia questions you answer correctly, the more points you\u2019ll score, and if you get a streak of right answers, you\u2019ll earn increasingly more points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The rules are slightly different if you\u2019re playing with one player or two. On your own, you\u2019ll take on three one-minute rounds. With another person, you\u2019ll each do two one-minute rounds, one at a time. If you\u2019re playing on a TV, this means your opponent can watch you try to guess correctly, which upped the stress and competition when I played a round with my wife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n At the end, the game will tally your score. In single player, you\u2019ll get a title based on you how you performed against a series of \u201cchallenges,\u201d which are just increasingly higher amounts of points. (I\u2019m of course a fan of the \u201cShockingly Average\u201d title, which features a yawning face emoji<\/a>.) In two player, you don\u2019t get the title \u2014 just bragging rights. Though if you tie, there\u2019s no tiebreaker; the game just encourages you to play again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s Netflix\u2019s next step in gaming<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Triviaverse<\/em> matches have minimal setup (you can even skip the intro!) and picking answers is quick, making it ideal for a round or two of trivia on your own or large trivia battles with your friends and family. But like Netflix\u2019s other interactive titles, Triviaverse<\/em> won\u2019t work on a handful of devices (including the Apple TV), so if you want to try it out, make sure you have something that can actually play it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Triviaverse<\/em> marks the latest interactive title on Netflix (remember Bandersnatch<\/em>?<\/a>), but it\u2019s also the service\u2019s next crack at trivia following Trivia Quest<\/em>, a 30-episode daily trivia series it released in April<\/a>. It also represents the next step in Netflix\u2019s growing ambitions in gaming, which include a growing catalog of mobile titles<\/a> and explorations into cloud gaming<\/a>. I think the speedy nature of Triviaverse <\/em>could make it a hit, and depending on how successful it is, perhaps we\u2019ll see similarly lightweight games come to Netflix in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n